Chapter 108

108 I Won’t Take Your Life

I smiled. “Nice question. Let me put it like this; your father was doing it illegally. I, on the other hand, is doing it legally. I got permission from the higher ups to do whatever I am doing right now. So yeah, we are similar but not the same.”

The way I was speaking probably made them furious, but what could they do about it? To harm me, they first needed to have strength and rationality. But, seeing their condition now, they could only lay on the floor with their mind started to muddle. Moreover...

“If you guys insist on troubling me, I could help you save some of your efforts, by directly throwing you inside with this old man so you can accompany each other.” I walked around slowly while looking at them sprawling on the floor. With how intense I was staring at them, I couldn’t possibly miss the glint in their eyes.

They might be thinking that throwing them in a room together would give them opportunity to plan their escape and retaliation.

Little did they know, getting inside the torture room meant they should say goodbye to their lives. There was no going back after that.

Not to mention it was not a prison in human dimension where the warden could get sleepy and make mistakes.

It was a prison in another dimension, in mystic world, with the White Army as the guards. Even if they didn’t need to sleep and didn’t feel tired, I still put on a tight schedule on them to torture the old man. Even if they did sleep, with how many they were, I doubt these people could cheat on my White Army.

Wishful thinking!

I couldn’t help but chuckle at how their mind worked.

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“Old man, they want to be with you.” Turning my body around so I could face the not-poor old man’s soul, I saw him turned rigid as his head shook wildly and he let out some unintelligible noises in attempt to speak, probably shouting at them not to think so foolish.

Too bad he was a mute now. He couldn’t say anything at all and only made incoherent noises.

“See? Even the old man suggested you not to take any rash decision. Why would you join him?” I kindly translated what he was saying.

“Screw you!”

“Go to hell!”

Facing with their anger and insults, I was staying calm. There’s no point in getting worked up over this small matter.

“Well, because it’s not a small matter, let me decide it for you. Your father will stay inside while the five of you will still be here. Of course, I won’t take your life. I have no use of it. You can keep it.” I said casually.

“I’m taking him back. I’m only taking him out here so he can see with his own eyes what kind of mess he has created. I’ll let him watch as you guys turn muddle-headed from the side-effect of your power.” I added on still with the casual look on my face.

I might sound cruel but I didn’t care. On the other side, I pretty much knew that the old man in my prison didn’t have much time to live. With the fact that his soul had been taken forcefully and being led away from the body for so long, I doubted he would survive for more than a month.

His only family was on the brink of getting crazy yet he couldn’t do anything. He indeed was forced to watch them slowly turned crazy and as a normal person, I was sure it was a torture for him.

That’s exactly the reason why I had been keeping him alive; to let him taste the worst torture in his life.

This kind of people, they didn’t know the word ‘remorse’.

I was saving them from getting drowned deeper in the black hole. If the old man knew better, he would have kowtowed to me for saving his family.

Of course, what would happen next was out of my responsibility. Whether they would rot in hell together or not, was not my business.

After achieving what I came for, I decided to leave. Somehow along the fight, Bumi was hiding in a corner of a room and fainted.

How weak was he to lose his consciousness like that? I blamed it on the Shadow that feed on him, though.

Reaching for his consciousness, I tried to examine his spiritual strength. Siji had been teaching me this trick after I got the news about my father got into an accident. I was pretty much good at it.

After checking on him for a while, I found that he had lost quite amount of life energy but his spiritual strength was surprisingly good. No wonder he could still be sane after being sucked on by the Shadow for long.

Usually, after a person got into contact with Shadow for quite a long time, this person would get possessed so easily. It was as if a hole was opened in this person’s body which would allow those entities to easily enter and possess the body.

Somehow I managed to find a way to fix it. Bumi was not the first person so I was pretty sure it was safe and trustworthy.

I had tried this method to close the gaping hole in Senior Hani’s body. He admitted that he could see ‘them’ but he could easily get possessed, too. Just like what had happened with Amanda. Most of the time he could control the one who entered his body, but facing a strong opponent like Amanda, he could do nothing. That was why I made him my guinea pig to my experiment.

I sealed off the hole with my spiritual power.

I used my own power to close it and made some adjustments here and there in his consciousness, his source of spiritual power. I didn’t even know it would work, but it did!

It may sound awesome and cool, but trust me, it was not easy. I depleted most of my energy after doing that for the first time, but I was sure I could control it on the second time.

I left Bumi after I finished ‘fixing’ him. I wasn’t worried at all because the tiger was there. Of course it would be best if he left the house, but I left the option to him.

Ah, if anyone would accuse me being too reckless, that one day one of them would report me to the cops, I would say ‘what report can a crazy person make?’

As for Bumi, hehehe, I fogged up his memory about me.

The neighbors? The closest neighbor was more or less 100 meters away and most of the people nearby knew that this family was a family of shaman.

If anything bad were to happen to them, their first thought would be ‘it must be caused by their own pets shadow. They might not be able to feed them, which was why those pets retaliated and ended up causing a demise to the family.’

Before I went out from the quiet yard, I fulfilled my promise to those creatures outside.

Their appearances were still scary as ever, but the voices that were transmitted into my brain was desperate. So, I broke the chain that was tying them up and set them free.

Some of them left, but some of them stayed with a purpose; to hide the house so that no human would be able to see it and feel overly curious. They would only leave after all of them had died, excluding Bumi.

I took a deep breath and closed my eyes as I breathed in the fresh air of my surrounding. The rice leaves were playing with wind, creating a soothing music to the ears. After I returned to my hometown, I rarely had time to to take care of ‘them’. But, it didn’t mean I was free...